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British troops with their luggage embark a ship and a salvage crew takes out a sunken ship hulk from the Suez Canal in Egypt.

British troops evacuating from Port Said in Egypt. United Nations Commander General Eedson Louis Millard Burns gets off from an aircraft. He is greeted by officers. British troops at a dock. The troops aboard a ship leaving for England. The troops with their luggage embark a ship. The ship leaves the dock. A statue. Sunken ships in the Suez Canal. A diver jumps in water for preliminary survey. The sunken ships in the canal. The salvage crew aboard a ship tie a 9 inch cable for taking out hulks. The attached cable. A ship hulk taken out from the canal. The ships in the canal.

Date: 1956, December 10
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069879
The Suez Crisis. British forces prepare to engage Egypt.

Suez crisis. Ships at port in Great Bitter Lake, Suez Canal, Egypt. Aerial views of region. boats maneuver around two sunken ships. British Landing craft grouped at port. British troops in full battle gear, march at port. Other British soldiers sort out artillery pieces and load munitions on trucks. Egyptian men mill about in street where two soldiers are seen. Aerial view of ships moving in canal.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035434
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies at conference to persuade President Nasser of Egypt, to accept international control of Suez Canal

President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt enters building in Cairo, for 5 nation talks regarding control of the Suez Canal during the Suez Crisis. Egyptian officials follow President Nasser. Prime Minister of Australia Sir Robert Gordon Menzies climbs stairs to the building, followed by officials. Other delegates arrive for the conference and are all escorted inside. President Nasser and Prime Minister Menzies stand in hall and converse. They shake hands. Other delegates file into the hall. Prime Minister Menzies seen leaving the conference, followed by phalanx of reporters.

Date: 1956, September 3
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056024
Dag Hammarskjold boards an aircraft for Cairo and UN Forces in Egypt during the Suez Crisis.

Events during the Suez Crisis in Egypt. Officials and delegates at an airport. UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold boards an aircraft for Cairo. Ruins and debris of bombed buildings on a street. A building burning. A man on a cart carries two dead men. Several views of the dead people lying on a street. The troops walk on a street. The tanks roll down a street. People crowd on either side of the street. Commander of the UN (United Nation) Forces Canadian General Eedson Louis Millard Burns gets off from an aircraft. The UN troops drive in a jeep. The sunken ships in Suez Canal. A donkey drawn cart and men move towards the canal.

Date: 1956, November 15
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069737
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, leaves Cairo, after failed negotiations with President Nasser of Egypt

Passengers board British European Airways Vickers Vicount airliner at Cairo Airport. Among those boarding is Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, who just concluded an unsuccessful attempt to persuade President Nasser, of Egypt, to accept international control of the Suez Canal. Among those bidding Menzies, and his party, farewell, is U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Henry A. Byroade, who is seen conversing quietly with another diplomat, as the airplane prepares to leave. The aircraft engines start, propellers turn, and it taxis away.

Date: 1956, September 4
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056025
President Nasser arrives for a conference with Indian Minister, Australia's Prime Minister and others in Cairo, Egypt.

Suez Canal crises sorted out by Egyptian President Abdel Nasser in Cairo, Egypt. In Britain supplies of military material like artillery, guns and truck being stocked and loaded onto a ship to be transported to the Middle East. artillery and trucks being loaded. In Cairo Indian Minister Vengalil Krishanan Krishna Menon arrives. He greets others. Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies arrives in Cairo. Egypt's President Nasser arrives at a conference.

Date: 1956, September 6
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046968